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National Artist Virgilio Almario and one of the foremost champions of Philippine children's literature collects his notes, thoughts, obeservations, and critiques about the history and present situation of the burgeoning genre in the Philippine litera...

Philippine Folk Literature: The Riddles constitutes Volume V of the author's eight-volume Philippine Folk Literature series. This work is intended to be a national collection of Philippine riddles--a putting together of available collections of riddl...

With Dusk (originally published in the Philippines as Po-on), F. Sionil Jose begins his five-novel Rosales Saga, which the poet and critic Ricaredo Demetillo called "the first great Filipino novels written in English." Set in the 1880s...

Recently, after I had finished reading and checking this manuscript, I picked out several chapters at random, and read them again, and found myself laughing out loud. I hope my readers also find things to laugh about in this ‘tell it like it was’ mem...

The centennial edition of major Filipino writer José Garcia Villa's collected poetry Known as the "Pope of Greenwich Village," José Garcia Villa had a special status as the only Asian poet among a group of modern literary giants in...

Celebrating the centennial of his birth, the first-ever U.S. publication of Philippine writer Nick Joaquin’s seminal works, with a foreword by PEN/Open Book Award–winner Gina ApostolA New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice Nick Joa...

Marcelina's father comes home from a trip to Manila with beautiful hand-made sleeping mats for each member of his large family, including the three daughters who died when they were very young.Originally a short story written more than 60 years ago, ...

Through the years, this book on Philippine Literature has helped students understand the pressures which shaped Philippine writing, and how writers and their audience responded to those pressures. Philippine Literature: A History and Anthology gives ...

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“Henry’s Awesome Christmas” is a book you won’t want to put down. Christmas was right around the corner. But, six-year-old Henry was really sad. Henry had hoped to see his grandparents over the holidays. Traveling from where he lived though, was very...

Stories on the Asian immigrant experience continue to hold a certain fascination with readers everywhere. “Krystal Hut: Stories” is a finely wrought debut collection showcasing some of the author’s award-winning and previously published stories. They...

As the largest contingent of Asian/Pacific Islanders in the United States today, Filipinos have been described as “invisible,” “forgotten,” marginal “others,” and, on the whole, inconsequential. From Exile to Diaspora challenges these stere...

Tales by a Parochial Filipina attempts to recount the many tales including those superstitions that the old mothers and grandmothers in the Philippine countryside still love to tell despite the younger generation’s apparent disbelief and semi-deafnes...

Tales are the stories of those many people who seem very ordinary, living commonplace lives. No flashy lifestyles, no highly intelligent discourses, no fantastical struggles, no whimsy dreams. These are their stories, dramatic though they are, told s...

Oh, we weave such a tangled dark web. Is it possible to disentangle oneself without inflicting damage, permanent damage, to one’s person?When a person goes missing, how do you find her? Where do you find her? Does she even want to be found?A vigilant...

The Anting-Anting is both talisman and fetich: it is the Filipino version of good medicine. The characters and situations in these eleven stories are from an earlier, less progressive era. These stories contain adventure, mystical elements, pirates, ...

This novella-length collection features stories previously published in Asians in America Magazine, Story Philippines, the Philippines Free Press and the Kartika Review, as well as two unpublished pieces. Kelly's work has been nominated for the Phili...